Re: Proposal: Fixing non-free content issues via installer packages
> At 1154008671 past the epoch, Goneri Le Bouder wrote:
>> I'm not fan of make-jpkg since you have to downlad the
>> tarball yourself first...
>
> That is a disadvantage, yes, but one imposed by Java's
> licence which prevented anyone else distributing the runtime
> or jdk packages (which has changed recently, I'm not sure if
> java is in non-free now).
Java is still non-free.
>> ...and install useless dependency.
> Do you mean fakeroot and dpkg-buildpackage etc. in Depends:
> for users?
Yes, for standard users this is useless.
>> A prefere a script that find a valid mirror with netselect
>> and then download the tarball, apply rules on it and
>> extract its content in /usr/share/games/pkgname/
> That's definitely a good idea where possible but not an
> option for commercial data e.g. the doom IWAD file, Quake
> pak files. In this case pulling it from local
> CD-ROM/floppies/filesystem is necessary.
Yep why not. With some md5/sha1 checks to prevent invalid installation.
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